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Fractured - The Dynamic MMO

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UPDATE: WE MADE IT! WHAT'S NEXT?

Funding of Fractured will continue on our website, fracturedmmo.com, once the Kickstarter campaign is over. You'll be able to buy a pledge pack or upgrade to a higher one (if available) once Kickstarter pledges have been integrated with Fractured accounts.

Thank you so much for your trust and support - you're amazing!

UPDATE: STRETCH GOALS

Note: funding for feature stretch goals (the ones based on total pledged, such as the Labyrinth, Liches, etc) is going to continue on our website after the campaign is over. Have a look at this post for more details!

Fractured is the first open-world sandbox MMORPG mixing action combat with fully interactable environments, appealing equally to lovers of competitive and cooperative gameplay.

Jump right into the fray from day one. Defeat your enemies through your own skill and cleverness, not equipment or level. Gather resources, craft, trade and venture into legendary travels as a solitary hero, or start a settlement with your guild and grow it into the next empire.

In Fractured, choosing where to start your journey doesn’t mean following a different series of quests in an otherwise identical game. Join the first MMO where the race you belong to has an actual impact on game mechanics, from the type of society you live in to the ways you can interact with other players.

Check out this article for detailed info about the three races and their-sub-races. Want to know more about the planets they inhabit and the Elysium System? This other article is what you're looking for. More about Alignment and PvP? Here you go!

HUMANS - TOTAL FREE WILL: No human is born good or bad. Make your choice to uphold the law or break the established order. From a righteous governor to a cruel brigand, any path is open to you on planet Syndesia. Beware, though: you’ll be subject to the rules of a feudal society, so think beforehand to the consequences of your actions!

BEASTMEN -
LIVING IN HARMONY:
Living on a planet overwhelmed by giant vegetation, Beastmen have developed a deep connection to nature that endowed them with super-human resilience and keen survival skills. If you enjoy a cooperative and defensive gameplay in a peaceful community, look no further: Arboreus is your new home.

DEMONS -
BLOOD AND TERROR:
Banished to a hostile planet scarce in resources and filled with dangers, Demons possess an inner evil alignment that makes it natural for them to prey on each other and on other races. Make Tartaros your choice if you’re hungry for blood and dream of becoming a legendary ravager, assassin, or worse.

CHANGE YOUR DESTINY: Commit the highest betrayal and turn your Beastman into an Abomination. Leave the horrors of Tartaros in search of the light and get an Angel born from the ashes of a Demon. The paths of corruption and redemption are long and devious, but your will can always change your destiny!

Levels, skills, achievements. These classic progression patterns always have one thing in common: the grind. In Fractured, an innovative take on horizontal progression allows you to enjoy the freedom and level playing field of a MOBA without losing the persistence and sense of progression of a real MMO.

Want to discover the Knowledge System in detail? It's all in this article!

JUMP RIGHT INTO THE ACTION: Tired of MMOs where the fun begins 80 hours after you’ve started playing? In Fractured, you’re free to join your friends in the most epic adventures right off the bat. Once the strengths and weaknesses of your character are set, you’ll be on a quest for knowledge and reputation, not attribute points!

GOODBYE GRIND, WELCOME KNOWLEDGE: Say goodbye to the conventional RPG level and skill systems you’ve seen way too often and embrace the power and flexibility of the Knowledge System. It’s about time you get rewarded for your courage and cleverness, not for the hours you’ve spent hunting zombies or punching a training dummy!

EVERY DAY A NEW GAMEPLAY: Take a moment to rest in front of a fire in your home, a tavern or your group’s encampment. Prepare a set of abilities to define your role in battle and assign your talent points to finely tune your build. In a couple minutes a whole new hero will be at your command, ready for the challenges you're expecting to face.

Here at Dynamight, we believe in the principle that everything in an MMO should be influenced by the actions of the player: nothing should ever be static and immutable.
We’ve embedded this view deeply in the design of Fractured, from combat to environments, from crafting to world colonization. It's no coincidence we call it “The Dynamic MMO”!

ACTION COMBAT EVOLVED: Fractured is out to break the boundaries of the MMO genre by bringing the combat style you’ve loved in single-player Action RPGs into a complex sandbox universe. Learn to aim, dodge and master over 400 abilities and 40 unique status effects: only your skills and tactics will lead you to victory!

FULLY INTERACTABLE ENVIRONMENTS: Stuck between a clan of bandits and a raging river? Animate the waters to protect you, or freeze them over to cross to safety – then melt them to drown your foes! In Fractured, the natural elements around you can always be exploited to defeat your enemies, even when all hope seems lost.

BUILD AND GOVERN AN EMPIRE: Looking for a new home? Find a suitable location and start a settlement with your guild. As a governor, you’ll be able to guide its development into a social, trading, or military hub. Beware, though: the rise to power of your city won’t go unnoticed, so get ready to protect it from hostile raids and sieges!

Finding a broadsword in the corpse of a rat sounds a little unlikely? Forget about old RPG clichés and enter a world where every item is crafted by players. Exploit the uneven distribution of resources to get high profits when trading at faraway markets - but make sure you reach your destination alive!

SETTLE FOR SURVIVAL: Stake your claim to free land in the open world, secure it from your enemies and start your own cultivation and livestock business. Your products will never be in low demand since access to food and water is essential for survival, especially when venturing into long extra-planetary travels.

A LIVING WORLD: Wood, stone, metal, gems, herbs. Each planet is rich in some commodities and entirely lacks others. Explore the massive universe of Fractured to locate and harvest the rarest resource nodes in every region, but remember: locals might try to stop you as environment exploitation can damage a whole ecosystem!

HUNTING MATTERS: Not all resources are fine with being harvested. Fur, hides, bones, carapaces and several other key crafting components can only be obtained through PVE combat. If you’re an avid monster hunter, Tartaros will be your dreamland… or perhaps your worst nightmare.

Before starting this project, we've spent months researching the right tech to allow us to fulfill our ambitions and cut down development costs at the same time.

The choice to build the frontend of Fractured has fallen on Unity, a popular, always evolving game engine that guarantees great reliability while ensuring high development speed, coming with a very competitive pricing model that takes no revenue cut from developers.

The backend of the game is based on SpatialOS, a revolutionary world-building platform from British company Improbable that allows us to host tens of thousands of concurrent players and other entities in the same seamless universe. It integrates out of the box with Unity and relieves us of several technological burdens!

Once the Kickstarter campaign is successfully completed, Fractured will be able to join the Games Innovation Program promoted by Improbable, which will cover our server expenses while the game is in development, further reducing development costs for Dynamight Studios.

Feature Spotlights are a series of lengthy (but hopefully not boring!) articles lifting the veil on the major game design solutions and mechanics behind Fractured.

During the campaign we'll surely drop a couple more to satisfy the curiosity of the community on highly-requested topics such as town building and management.

Dynamight Studios is a financially stable company. Careful business planning, coupled with backing from the three founders and private investors, make us feel safe about the future of the project. Moreover, we already have open channels with a few large game publishers that have shown interest in Fractured.

Kickstarter can add a lot to that, though.

First of all, it will allow us to immediately add a few professionals we've already selected to the team (such as a new 3D artist, a developer, an animator and a VFX artist). This will prevent us from having to cut down on game features, ultimately giving us the chance to fulfill 100% of our vision for Fractured.

Moreover, Kickstarter lets us expand our audience, open a new line of communication with our supporters, receive further feedback on our ideas and figure out how appealing Fractured is among the crowd of MMO lovers. While not financial, these benefits are still invaluable!

The team here at Dynamight Studios features a great mix of game development veterans and young talents - all professionals first, but also gamers at heart, truly passionate about MMOs.

Our team is going to grow considerably after this Kickstarter campaign through the addition of other skilled developers and artists who share our same vision - some already selected and ready to embark in this adventure with us.

PET COMPANIONS: Never walk the roads of Syndesia, Arboreus or Tartaros alone. Pet companions follow you faithfully during all of your adventures, even in the most dangerous circumstances!

MOUNT & EQUIP SKINS: cosmetic skin rewards are not inventory items (that could be dropped on death or get stolen by other players). Instead, they are added as options to your account - so you can just reskin the piece of equipment you're wearing or the mount you're riding from an ad-hoc menu, like you would do in a MOBA. Quick and safe! ;)

Horse Armor Skins: Knight, Governor, Aristocrat

Player Armor Skins: Knight, Governor, Aristocrat

Here you can find a list of links to official Fractured pages and resources that might come in handy. Other than checking out these pages, we invite you to explore our forums and post your feedback, ideas and criticism about Fractured!

Risks and challenges

Game development is a complex and risky effort, and MMOs are well known for being one of the most unforgiving products to work on.

A few years ago, small studios could only dream of working on an MMO due to extreme technological challenges to be overcome and the huge capitals required. Luckily for us - and for you, things have changed a lot since then.

Our first months working on Fractured were spent analyzing and choosing the right tech, fleshing out the design of the game, and making truly long term plans on the business, development and editorial sides.

Today, after one year and a half of work, we can say those initial efforts have paid off. Work on the game is progressing faster than expected, deadlines are met. All of this, coupled with our previous first-hand experience in MMO development, makes us truly confident we can bring Fractured to completion.

Of course, notwithstanding our planning efforts, unforeseeable incidents and issues might take place, as it usually happens with game development.

Nonetheless, our commitment to you is always to:

- Use all funds acquired on the development of Fractured
- Put the greatest efforts in meeting deadlines we've announced for testing phases and new implementations
- Keep informing you on the state of the game, of funding and of the community
- Be always in touch, like we've been so far, to continue receiving your feedback and incorporating it in our decisions

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CREATOR

• Design one of the Minor Deities of the Pantheon of Elysium
• Design one of the Disciples of Galvanos, the legendary Archmages of Elysium
• Design one of the Relics of Power, granting bonuses to the town that stores it
• Design one of the creatures inhabiting one of the three planets
• Receive concept art prints of your creations signed by the Art Director
• Personal contact with the Dynamight Studios team
• Unique forum title: “Creator”
• Unique in-game title: “Creator”
• Ruby forum badge
• Ruby in-game avatar badge

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About US$ 2,848

LEGEND: DUKE OF SYNDESIA

• Custom personal Crest and Banner to be displayed in one NPC-controlled town of Syndesia
• Permanent statue placed in the center of the town commemorating you
• Work with the dev team to include your personal history in the lore of the town
• Personal Duke Armor Skin with your own Crest
• Design your own Weapon
• Pet companion: Royal Eagle
• You’ll be listed first in the credits of the game as Development Advisor
• Unique forum title – “Duke of Syndesia”
• Unique in-game title – “Duke of Syndesia”
• Diamond forum badge
• Diamond in-game avatar badge

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About US$ 2,848

LEGEND: HIGH DRUID OF ARBOREUS

• Custom personal Druidic Sigil to be displayed in one NPC-controlled village of Arboreus
• Permanent statue placed in the center of the village commemorating you
• Work with the dev team to include your personal history in the lore of the vilage
• Personal High Druid Armor Skin with your own Sigil
• Design your own Weapon
• Pet companion: Golden Howl
• You’ll be listed first in the credits of the game as Development Advisor
• Unique forum title – “High Druid of Arboreus”
• Unique in-game title – “High Druid of Arboreus”
• Diamond forum badge
• Diamond in-game avatar badge

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Pledge €2,500 or more
About US$ 2,848

LEGEND: WARLORD OF TARTAROS

• Custom personal Hellmark to be displayed in one Nest of Tartaros
• Permanent statue placed in the center of the Nest commemorating you
• Work with the dev team to include your personal history in the lore of the Nest
• Personal Warlord Armor Skin with your own Hellmark
• Design your own Weapon
• Pet companion: Noxious Cockatrice
• You’ll be listed first in the credits of the game as Development Advisor
• Unique forum title – “Warlord of Tartaros”
• Unique in-game title – “Warlord of Tartaros”
• Diamond forum badge
• Diamond in-game avatar badge

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Pledge €5,000 or more
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LEGEND: KING OF SYNDESIA

• Custom personal Crest and Banner to be displayed in all the NPC-controlled towns of Syndesia and on the shields and capes of the Royal Guard
• Permanent giant statue placed in the center of all NPC-controlled towns commemorating you
• Work with the dev team to include your personal history in the lore of Syndesia
• Personal King Armor Skin with your own Crest
• Design your own Weapon
• Pet companion: Imperial Griffon
• You’ll be listed first in the credits of the game as Development Advisor
• Unique forum title – “King of Syndesia”
• Unique in-game title – “King of Syndesia”
• Royal forum badge
• Royal in-game avatar badge

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LEGEND: SOUL OF ARBOREUS

• Custom personal Druidic Sigil to be displayed in all the NPC-controlled villages of Arboreus and on the bodies of the Guardians of Arboreus
• Permanent giant statue placed in the center of all NPC-controlled villages commemorating you
• Work with the dev team to include your personal history in the lore of Arboreus
• Personal Soul Armor Skin with your own Sigil
• Design your own Weapon
• Pet companion: Earth Dragon
• You’ll be listed first in the credits of the game as Development Advisor
• Unique forum title – “Soul of Arboreus”
• Unique in-game title – “Soul of Arboreus”
• Royal forum badge
• Royal in-game avatar badge

Kickstarter is not a store.

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About US$ 5,697

LEGEND: TYRANT OF TARTAROS

• Custom personal Hellmark to be displayed in all the Nests of Tartaros on the bodies of the Terrors of Tartaros
• Permanent giant statue placed in the center of all Nests commemorating you
• Work with the dev team to include your personal history in the lore of Tartaros
• Personal Tyrant Armor Skin with your own Hellmark
• Design your own Weapon
• Pet companion: Skeletal Dragon
• You’ll be listed first in the credits of the game as Development Advisor
• Unique forum title – “Tyrant of Tartaros”
• Unique in-game title – “Tyrant of Tartaros”
• Royal forum badge
• Royal in-game avatar badge